03 Matt Howard PTSD Shadow by Nicolas Lampert.jpg

06 Pill Bottle Soldiers and Combat Paper by Malachi Muncy.jpg

08 PTSD Stars and Stripes by Josh MacPhee.jpg

09 Believe and Support by Temparary Services.jpg

10 American War Bad and Sad by Harrell Fletcher and Transformazium.jpg

11 A Cultural Problem Maggie Martin by Nave Fortin and Siri Margerin.jpg

12 Im a Sharpshooter Chantelle Bateman by Siri Magerin.jpg

13 War is Trauma for Humans and Otherwise by Roger Peet.jpg

14 Support GI Resistance by Kevin Caplicki.jpg

15 War is Trauma Gernade by Jesse Purcell.jpg

16 No Such Thing as a Toy Soldier by Marshall Weber.jpg

17 Everything in the Army was Fine Shawna by Siri Margerin.jpg

19 Carlos Cortez Koyokuikatl by Dylan AT Miner.jpg

20 You Are Not My Enemy by Drew Cameron.jpg

21 Dont Send Them Back With PTSD by Bec Young.jpg

23 Auf Wiedersehen Susse Welt Toy Soldier by Chris Arendt.jpg

24 Battle Cross Over Iraq by Mary Tremonte.jpg

25 Kimberly Rivera by Santiago Armengod.jpg

28 GI Rights Coffeehouse by Molly Fair.jpg

33 Remeber the Vet Who Cant Forget by Michael Rakowitz.jpg

War is Trauma Portfolio

War Is Trauma is a portfolio of handmade prints organized by Nicoles Lampert and myself and produced by the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), and their allies. The portfolio transpired out of a street poster project, from November 2010, which a number of Justseeds artists provided graphics for "Operation Recovery" - a campaign to stop the deployment of traumatized troops and win service members and veterans right to heal. Posters were pasted in public, replacing many corporate advertisements, to focus public attention towards the issues not being discussed - GI Resistance, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), sexual assault in the military or Military Sexual Trauma (MST), and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). The action led to another collaboration between Justseeds and IVAW - an “Operation Recovery” booklet published by Printed Matter in NYC and currently the War is Trauma portfolio. For this project over 30 artists from Justseeds, IVAW, and our allies have each created a print that addresses “Operation Recovery,” its larger goals of supporting service member and veterans right to heal, GI resistance, challenging the culture of militarism in the US, and ending the war in Afghanistan. A total of 130 portfolios have been created that we hope inspire 130 exhibitions that can act as a starting point to bring different people together – veterans, civilians, Iraqis, Afghans, and others to dialogue on issues.

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The prints are housed within a handmade paper cover from the Combat Paper Project – paper whose source material derives from military uniforms that veterans have cut into small piece, mixed with water, and pulped into paper as part of the healing process. Drew Cameron of the CPP writes, “The batch that I made for the portfolio is mostly created from Army Combat Uniforms that we were worn with the Stryker battalions out of Fort Lewis, WA. These are the same guys who rolled out of Iraq early back in July 2010. I also added Egyptian cotton to strengthen it. I like to imagine that the mill workers who made the cloth I used were the same one’s rising up last spring.”

For more info check out the portfolio at: http://www.ivaw.org/war-is-trauma